Depends on what you mean by Gbit ?

Gigabit @ imix packet distribution  ? possibly. 

Gigabit @ high rate, small packet size, very doubtful. 


Greg


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> A working (dead hard drive) Dell PowerEdge 750 (1 GByte RAM,
> can probably double or quadruple that) with two Intel NICs
> onboard (have another dual-port server NIC that fits)
> fell into my hands. CPU is probably a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4.
> 
> Is this useful material for a pfSense firewall that can handle
> ~GBit Ethernet, or is it not worth the power bill to
> operate?
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